Physics Analysis: Tesla Cybertruck vs. Porsche 911
Here’s the headline: “The Cybertruck beats a Porsche 911 while towing a Porsche 911”. It’s a pretty catchy title. But is it true? Perhaps not.
In this Tesla video, it shows a race between a Cybertruck and a 911 with the Cybertruck also a 911.
However, as demonstrated by Engineering Explained (Jason Fenske)— this is not over the 1/4 mile run but instead only 1/8th a mile. This leads to the next question: would the Cybertruck still win in the full 1/4 mile? Jason says that it would not. I still can’t believe Tesla lied about their video being 1/4th a mile. That’s whack.
I think Jason’s video is quite nice, but I wasn’t completely happy with his analysis. That means I’m just going to have to do it myself. For fun.
Let’s start with a video analysis of the race from the Tesla video. Just as Jason does, I’m going to find the 1/8th mile times for the two cars. You don’t have to literally count frames like he does — instead you can get a program to do it for you. I really like Tracker Video Analysis — it can give you…
